Digital Unit Plan

Unit Title: Vamos de Viaje! Name: Sandra Isassi-Ramirez

Content Area: World Languages/Spanish Grade Level: Spanish 2 (9th-12th)
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

World Languages Content Standards:

1.2 Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics.
1.3 Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics
CONTENT:
2.1 Students address topics related to self and the immediate environment, including: Social relationships, f. climate, g. Cultural and
leisure-time activities, music, transportation, geographical features and landmarks, l. cuisine, m. clothing.
COMMUNICATION:
2.1 Engage in oral and written conversations.
2.2 Interpret written or spoken language.
2.3 Present to an audience of listeners and readers.
STRUCTURES:
2.1 Use sentence-level elements (morphology or syntax or both) to produce informal communications.
SETTINGS:
2.0 Students use language in interpersonal settings.

21st Century Skills:

Students will use the internet to visit various websites to research information.
Students will use many digital websites to create a graphic organizer and to complete various assignments.
Students will use a word perfect program to write a research paper
Students will use iPads and Chromebooks in the classroom and/or home

Big Ideas/Unit Goals:

Students will show knowledge about Latin culture
Students will know how to research about a Spanish-speaking country
Students will know about the country of Argentina
Students will know how to present a topic in Spanish, using persuasive language.
UNIT OBJECTIVES:
Students will learn new vocabulary for making travel preparations and getting around in an airport. Then use these words to talk about
travel.
Students will learn direct and and indirect pronouns and use it to describe travel plans.
Students will be able to describe what to pack for their trip.
Students will be able to describe the location, the climate, the cuisine, the music, and the most important sights to visit in Argentina.

Unit Summary:
In this unit, students will make plans to travel to Argentina. Students will be given the opportunity to research about the culture and the country
of Argentina before making their travel plans. We will review vocabulary that they will use to talk about their travel plans, what to do at the
airport, and what to pack for their trip.
We will explore the different climates expected in the Southern Hemisphere and also the different sites, music, and cuisine that they will get to
explore during their trip.
Students will talk about their travel arrangements in class. They will present their findings and activities in a written report and a presentation in
class. As a second activity, students will write a postcard to a friend in Argentina and will discuss about their upcoming trip.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level:
Puzzle: Students will show prior knowledge
by completing a vocabulary puzzle in class.
Formative:
Word Wall: Five new words/day will be
chosen from our unit key vocabulary. Students
will take turns using these words on complete
sentences.
Guided Notes: After a lecture on the use of
Direct and Indirect object pronouns, students
will watch a prezi presentation and will
complete guided notes.
Think-Pair-Share: Students will continue
reviewing the use of DO/IO pronouns and
vocabulary by quizzing their assigned
classmate using a Quiz provided on Quizlet.
Webercise: Students will complete on
assigned topics for their research report on
Argentina
Graphic Organizer: to help organizing
students final report and to be used in oral
presentation.
Summative:
Postcard: Students will write to a friend in
Argentina about their upcoming trip.
Written Report: Presentation of students
research project in writing. This paper will
include five different topics about Argentina,
as a representative country of Spanish-
speaking countries in America. These topics
will include: location, climate, five sights to
visit, five typical dishes, and five styles of
music.
Oral Presentation: Students will present
their report on Argentina using persuasive
language to motivate their classmates to take
a trip to Argentina.

Lesson 1
Student Learning Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
Objective: Students will give This lesson will serve as an introduction to travel vocabulary and the use of direct and indirect
Students demonstrate evidence of key object pronouns.
knowledge of key vocabulary knowledge Puzzle:
vocabulary and the use by completing a puzzle This unit will begin with an exploratory assignment to establish prior vocabulary knowledge.
of Direct and Indirect and by giving complete Students will complete a puzzle of key vocabulary words. Students will review and practice with
an assigned classmate.
Object pronouns by sentences from new
Word Wall:
completing a puzzle and vocabulary on our Word
We will start a Word Wall of unknown vocabulary to most students. Students will be given time
guided notes distributed Wall.
to review and practice these vocabulary words daily.
in class. Students will Students will complete
Think-Pair-Share:
learn at least five new Guided Notes to further After studying DO and IO pronouns, students will quiz each other using a quiz on Quizlet.
vocabulary words/day by assimilate key Guided Notes:
keeping and using a vocabulary words and After watching a lecture presentation on prezi that introduces students to our unit theme:
Word Wall. knowledge on the use of traveling to a Spanish-speaking country, traveling vocabulary, what to do while traveling.
the DO and IO pronouns. Students will complete Guided Notes.

Lesson 2
Student Learning Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
Objective: Students will complete a Students will be assigned their final project on this unit: This project will have three parts: a
Students will summarize Webercise describing 5 written report, an oral presentation, and a postcard to a friend in a Spanish-speaking country.
and organize information different topics assigned Students will be grouped in groups of five for their written and oral reports. Their postcard
using multiple websites about Argentina. assignment will be an individual assessment. They will be asked to write a report about
for their research Students will analyze and Argentina. They have to gather information on: countrys location, climate, sightseeing,
cuisine, and music. Students will be given three different rubrics to guide them through their
project. Students will report data using a
final project. They will be given access to a set of resources to collect information. Students
identify information on graphic organizer.
will be first assigned a webquest to help them organize the information collected.
five different topics
Subsequently, students will create a graphic organizer to better visualize their research on
assigned on Argentina.
Argentina.
Webercise:
Complete the online webquest. The resources range from the students textbook, video
resources, and online articles. Students will discuss information gathered and will make plans
for their final presentations.
Graphic Organizer:
Create a graphic organizer to help visualize research collected and also to be used in oral
presentations.
Lesson 3
Student Learning Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
Objectives: Students will turn in their Students will be exposed to videos, music, and food from Latin countries. Students will show off
Students will show postcards and it will be their newly found knowledge of a Latin country by turning in a written report and giving an oral
evidence of their graded according to presentation to the class. They will also write a postcard to a friend in Argentina. All of these
knowledge of informal rubric. assignments will be in Spanish. Rubrics for all three assignments were previously distributed.
Spanish by writing a Students will turn in their Postcard:
Students will be assigned to write a postcard to a friend telling him about what they like about
postcard to a friend. final reports on Argentina
their country and how excited they are about their upcoming trip. Students will use informal
Students will show (written and oral
language. The postcard will have a drawing on the front following teachers instructions. It will
evidence of their presentation) according
be graded according to rubric. This is an individual assessment. The maximum number of
knowledge of the Latin to rubrics.
points is 30.
culture by the Written Report:
information reported on The objective of this report is to show knowledge of the Latin culture. Students will write a
their final reports. For report on Argentina based on the following five topics: location, climate, five sights to visit, five
their written report, different typical dishes, and five different styles of music. The reports are no less than five
students will use a Word pages long, with many illustrations, and the sites consulted are listed. This final unit report will
Perfect program. be graded per group and according to rubric. This report has a maximum of 50 points.
Students will persuade Oral Presentation:
their classmates to take The objective of this presentation is to convince classmates to go to Argentina. Students will
a trip to Argentina present orally to the class using their graphic organizer. Other means of illustrations are also
following their oral encouraged, for example: typical dishes or dresses, posters, artifacts, currency, etc. The oral
presentations. presentation will be no longer than 10 minutes and creativity and enthusiasm will be heavily
graded. This unit oral presentation will be graded individually and according to rubric. This oral
presentation carries a maximum of 20 points.

Unit Resources:
Web-quest:
WORLD ATLAS: WHERE IS ARGENTINA?
http://www.worldatlas.com/sa/ar/where-is-argentina.html
WIKIPEDIA: CLIMATE OF ARGENTINA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Argentina
SIGHTSEEING IN ARGENTINA:
http://www.touropia.com/best-places-to-visit-in-argentina/
MUSIC OF ARGENTINA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Argentina
ARGENTINEAN CUISINE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_cuisine
Graphic organizer:
HOW TO CREATE A POPPLET:
http://www.popplet.com/
WORLD ATLAS/ARGENTINA:
http://www.siteatlas.com/
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
http://www.fodors.com/
http://www.statravel.com.au/argentina-climate.htm
http://wikitravel.org/en/Argentina

Other Unit Resurces:

LEARN SPANISH TEXTBOOK AND ACTIVITIES:
http://www.classzone.com/books/en_espanol_2/
https://my.hrw.com/content/hmof/world_languages/hmhlanguages/na_sp/common/player.html?level=2
https://youtu.be/7iXFSyaMr_g
https://youtu.be/t18OTWXtpqg
https://youtu.be/OG5c5s-t7R8
https://youtu.be/hVXSusr9nTg
https://youtu.be/LGOV7nnj8eg
https://youtu.be/543MKQ1V_2U

Useful Websites: UNIT WEBSITE: http://vamosdeviajespanish2.weebly.com/

TEACHER WEBSITE: http://sandraspanish.weebly.com/
https://youtu.be/3jVyHCD3faU
http://www.conjugation.org/
http://www.studyspanish.com/
http://www.wordreference.com/
http://www.learnspanishtoday.com/
http://www.spanish.language&culture
http://www.netsmartz.org/
http://www.fluentu.com/
ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES:
http://www.ocpl.org/
CALIFORNIA CONTENT STANDARDS:
http://www.corestandards.org/